Word List Black History 218 words

Black History Vocabulary Word List (218)

• A

  abilities, abolition, acceptance, accomplishment, achievement, activism, adjustment, advocate, Africa, African-American, Amistad, art, artifact, athletic, attempt, authority, awareness

• B

  background, battles, bias, birth, black, black history, blame, blues, busing

• C

  catfish, cause, celebration, change, character, civil, civil rights, civilian, clash, collards, collection, colored, community, conditions, contribution, counter, crisis, culture

• D

  dancing, decades, dedication, demonstration, denial, difference, discipline, discovery, discrimination, disperse, distinct, diversity, Dixie, Douglas-Frederick

• E

  economy, education, emancipation, Emancipation Proclamation, emphasis, empower, enrich, entertainment, equality, exclusion, explosive

• F

  facility, failure, fair, force, freedom

• G

  genealogy, genuine, gifts

• H

  habit, halt, harmony, Harriet, heritage, highlight, historical, history, hope, housing, humor

• I

  important, inclusive, indentured, indigenous, inequality, infrastructure, inhumane, injury, injustice, inspire, integration, integrity, interpretation, interweave, invention, inventor

• J

  jazz, joy, justice

• K

  Klu Klux Klan

• L

  laborer, laughter, leader, legacy, liberty, Lincoln-Abraham, Little Rock, local

• M

  maintain, march, memory, milestones, motion, movement, music, musician

• N

  NAACP, Negro, neighborhood, nemesis, non-violence, northerner

• O

  obstacles, opportunity, oppression, oral history, organize, outstanding, overcome, overwhelm

• P

  past, peace, period, ports, poverty, preach, preacher, prejudice, prevent, pride, problems, program, public

• Q

  queries, quest

• R

  race, racism, rebellion, refuse, relevant, requirement, research, restriction, rhythm, rights, riot, roots

• S

  schooner, segregation, significance, singing, sit-in, skid-row, slave trade, slavery, slaves, society, song, soul, southern, southerner, spanning, spiritual, status, stereotype, stigma, storyteller, stride, strong, struggle, symbol

• T

  talent, terror, tolerance, torture, trace, tradition, treatment, tremble, trials, triumph, Tubman, Tuskagee airmen

• U

  unimaginable

• V

  view, vigor, violence, voting, vow

• W

  Washintong-Booker T., welfare, whites, wisdom, worship, worthy

• X

  xenophobia

• Y

  youth

• Z

  zeal, zealous